Plasencia, beautiful Cacereña city on board Jerte, holds each Tuesday of every week, a Market, where one sells all the typical products of the valleys of their environment: craft industry, cattle, and agriculture. But one of these Tuesdays is special and different with the others, Tuesday greater east called.

Plasencia is economic centre northern of the province and channels the agricultural produce and of breeding of the Valleys of its environment. First Tuesday of each August and very old, it holds this festivity of regional tourist interest. Plus Tuesday large it is a giant market which takes place in the nerve centre of the city, in full larger Place. Remember old medieval markets. Up to now go each year farmers, stockbreeders and craftsmen of the entire sector, to sell and convene with its products of excellent quality.

The market one brightened up with groups of folk dance clean of the sector, with contest of tambourines players, worms, prose, etc. With gaining one grants a price to them which consists a reproduction of famous Mayorga de Plasencia. Mayorga is the figure which touches the bell tower of the Town hall of Plasencia and supervises since top what is the larger Place of the city.

During the morning Placentinos and the visitors are invited with wine. In the night of the day before it is enjoyed with a large popular celebration. Plasencia overflows public, tourists and inhabitants, fills the streets, while dancing and while singing with they are of what is tambourines.

It appears that this market or fair of Plasencia goes up at the time Alfonso VIII, that which melts it while being regulated in the jurisdiction and the decrees. The difference between market and fair was in the duration, the market was only one day and the fair several days. The fair of equal Plasencia that the Market was free from taxes. Was so much the importance which the fair took during these days which until the legal activities were paralysed.

With the beginning of the conclusion of markets, all the traders, each one with their products, sold in a concrete place of the place, but the fair was regulated subsequently by decrees. Sometimes there were so many traders, who those which did not enter the larger place, occupied the adjacent streets, while grouping by unions, from there the name of some streets: Shoe manufacture, Cheeses, Stained glasses, etc.

The decrees also regulated that the cattle would be sold in the suburbs of the city, since the Door of Talavera until that of Trujillo.

Although nowadays all that changed much, it is clear that the importance of current larger Tuesday comes from the tradition which had in other centuries the market placentino.